Talk:Climate of India

Merger proposal

I propose to merge Climatic regions of India into Climate of India (this article). This article is much more comprehensive, is a featured article, and it seems like the other article has problems this one doesn't (e.g., citations for verification). Getsnoopy (talk) 02:59, 5 March 2019 (UTC)

Precipitation: Bangalore

Please convert the precipitation of Bangalore from cm to mm. 4nn1l2 (talk) 03:55, 13 September 2019 (UTC)

FA in need of review

This 2007 promotion never underwent a review and it seems that the article needs some work to rise to current FA standards. Some problems spotted (not exaustive):

• Large portions (entire paragraphs) of uncited text;
• Prose is lacking at times:
  • "India's geography and geology are climatically pivotal: the Thar Desert in the northwest and the Himalayas in the north work in tandem to create a culturally and economically important monsoonal regime."
  • "These hot winds greatly affect human comfort during this season. Rain follows. The rainy season begins in June. The rainiest months are July and August. The rains are the gifts of the southwest monsoon."
• Sentences that do not make sense:
  • "The region averages 800 millimetres (31 in)"  ??? We were talking about temperatures immediately before.
  • "Yet such rains reduce temperatures and can replenish groundwater tables, rivers." - sentence placement makes no sense, we were talking about economic impact of monsoons.
  • "Tornadoes may also occur, concentrated in a corridor stretching from northeastern India towards Pakistan. They are rare, however; only several dozen have been reported since 1835." - The idea of several dozen tornadoes does not strike me as a rare ocurrence. It's uncommon, I would think. Anyway, the wording is not precise.
• The article has not been updated with the most recent scholarship since its promotion (I spot very few papers published after 2007 in the article) Some examples that could be included:
  • Weather, Climate Change and Death in India (2017)
  • Changes in the characteristics of rain events in India (2009)
  • The Unequal Effects of Weather and Climate Change: Evidence from Mortality in India (2014)
• In the summer section, the "loo" is introduced twice in the same section:
  • "Another striking feature of summer is the Loo (wind). These are strong, gusty, hot, dry winds that blow during the day in India."
  • "At lower elevations, in parts of northern and western India, a strong, hot, and dry wind known as the loo blows in from the west during the daytime"
• Image placement needs sorting;
• Chang 1967, Grossman 2002, Chumakov & Zharkov 2003, Blasco, Bellan & Aizpuru 1996, at least, need page numbers in the citations;
• What is the difference between "Articles" and "Items" in the References? Because there are articles listed under "Items".

I did not read the whole article, these are only some observations. RetiredDuke (talk) 21:46, 27 August 2020 (UTC)